…planet, but how we know. How do we investigate planet-sized and deep-time phenomena? We typically teach today’s students about plate tectonics as if it’s a foregone conclusion that these are…
…Resource Finder through online searches for curriculum ideas, and has used several Molecular Workbench models in her class to teach about DNA, protein folding, transcription, and translation. She has also…
Visual Process Analytics (VPA) is an online analytical processing (OLAP) program that we are developing for visualizing and analyzing student learning from complex, fine-grained process data collected by interactive learning…
…2017. The Teaching Teamwork project, a collaboration between the Concord Consortium, CORD, Tidewater Community College, and Educational Testing Service, is using an online simulated electronic circuit to assess students’ abilities…
Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a story about using beavers to raise the water table and rehabilitate natural areas. Beavers? How can beavers do this? Photo by Walter Siegmund Beaver…
Mashable.com features Concord Consortium projects as examples of technology improving education Blog Post
Mashable.com featured our work heavily in its article today on 8 Ways Technology is Improving Education. Among other areas, the story cited our work with models and simulations, probes and…
…Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity—a far cry from the simple germination experiments students usually encounter. An article in the Fall 2017 Concord Consortium newsletter (“Science Thinking for Tomorrow Today”) describes…
…part, discussing how education could leverage all this energy and enthusiasm in great ways. More to come from that, and more Maker Faire videos and highlights as I process them….
…that role might mean supervising staff, designing lessons, offering teacher professional development workshops, producing YouTube videos for CodeStack, or coordinating school field trips and events, including for children of local…
…YouTube videos show how geotagging works in the current version of SmartIR and how users can later discover those geotags. At this point of the development, I envision SmartIR to…